The Sims franchise is transferring past linear, sequential online game releases, in keeping with franchise vice chairman and common supervisor Kate Gorman Revelli. As a substitute of transferring on to The Sims 5, changing The Sims 4, Digital Arts and developer Maxis will proceed to assist The Sims 4, including onto the franchise by growing subsequent to it, not changing it.
“A lot of the way in which folks play The Sims is about expressing themselves and their creativity and discovering their very own set of targets to pursue throughout the sport, however what brings them again is their attachment to these little those that they’ve constructed,” Gorman Revelli advised Polygon. “We additionally know that we’re not going to go to a linear mannequin, as a result of we now have a lot with The Sims 4. What we’re actually is, how can we proceed to work with our neighborhood, work with our gamers, and never have you’ve gotten this second in time the place you’re going to reset all of your progress and lose these superb recollections, characters, and issues that you simply’ve constructed inside these 10 years of your gameplay, probably?”
Confused? Up till now, most individuals thought-about Undertaking Rene as The Sims 5. However that’s not solely proper. Undertaking Rene will exist alongside The Sims 4 and different video games as a multiplayer element. “We wish to proceed to increase, so if you wish to play that form of multiplayer expertise, that’ll be what you search for within the issues we’ve talked about about Undertaking Rene,” she mentioned. The primary actual take a look at what to anticipate there may be scheduled for later this 12 months, in keeping with Gorman Revelli, as a part of its new experimental testing grounds, The Sims Labs.
“Once more, it’s a complementary expertise to all of the issues — it’s not a linear expertise,” she mentioned. “There’s loads we’ll be seeing within the playtest, however the core piece to know what Rene is we’re actually a method to make The Sims playable collectively. That’s what we’ll be persevering with to iterate on and study with the neighborhood.”
Gorman Revelli was clear that The Sims will proceed to evolve and improve. In a publish on The Sims’ weblog, The Sims 4 was described as “a foundational Sims expertise” that’ll proceed to be modernized. So will there ever be a sport known as The Sims 5? The reply feels like no. However that doesn’t imply the Sims expertise isn’t going to alter or evolve; no matter would fall, maybe, fifth in line as a mainline Sims sport (Rene or not!) is not a alternative for The Sims 4 — it’s a continuation of it.